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Activists are expressing concern about the surge of agents embarking on the cities \u2013 most of which have seen large Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of George Floyd \u2013 given Trump\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trumps-threats-to-use-force-against-protesters-fit-a-long-standing-pattern\/2020\/06\/02\/d26dc58a-a4de-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html\u0022\u003Eviolent rhetoric\u003C\/a\u003E against anti-racism protesters and DHS\u2019 long history of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/06\/05\/us-stop-using-untrained-abusive-agencies-protests\u0022\u003Eabusing people\u003C\/a\u003E with impunity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Thursday, Black Lives Matter Chicago filed a federal lawsuit to stop the deployment, anticipating that the abusive policing by federal officers in Portland would be repeated in Chicago.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\u0022twitter-tweet\u0022\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003ENEW: Chicago Black Lives Matter \u0026amp; their allies have filed a lawsuit to injunct the federal agents coming to their city as part of Operation Legend from using the sort of repressive tactics on display in Portland.\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/EocxMED4zx\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/EocxMED4zx\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/attackerman\/status\/1286373076951801857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EJuly 23, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\u003Cscript async=\u0022\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\u0022 charset=\u0022utf-8\u0022\u003E\u003C\/script\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt feels supremely urgent because the Chicago Police Department has been brutalizing Chicago folks since the May 30 uprising,\u201d Amika Tendaji, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Chicago, told the \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/black-lives-matter-sues-to-stop-trumps-chicago-crackdown\u0022\u003EDaily Beast\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E. \u201cAnd having the feds in Chicago come in and turn this into Portland, adding additional forces to the most policed large city in the nation, is going to be incredibly dangerous, incredibly brutal and incredibly violent for the heroic protesters who are demanding the defunding of police.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLUofWisconsin\/status\/1286410804305240064\u0022\u003Eresponded\u003C\/a\u003E to the news that federal agents would be deployed in their state\u2019s largest city.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAgainst the backdrop of the deeply problematic scene playing out in Portland, plans to send similar forces to Milwaukee make no sense,\u201d stated the ACLU affiliate. \u201cWe don\u2019t need a repeat of this failed, chaotic approach in Wisconsin.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2020\/07\/operation-legend-trump-federal-police-officers-defund-police-chicago-kansas-city\/\u0022\u003EMother Jones\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E reports that in Kansas City, where the planned expansion is already taking place, activists said that the influx of federal agents hasn\u2019t made their community any safer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask for this,\u201d Lora McDonald, head of More2, a social justice organization based in Kansas City, told Mother Jones of the surge.\u00a0\u201cFor us, it\u2019s all very reactionary instead of getting at the root causes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]